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Economics & Business Aug 4, 2021

Relationship between big tech and policing is shielded behind commercial confidentiality

For over ten years, public inquiries, press reports, police whistleblowers—and even chief constables—have been raising the issue of police IT systems not being fit for purpose and ultimately failing victims of crime. ...

Optics & Photonics May 14, 2021

Nanophotonics enhanced coverslip for phase imaging in biology

The ability to visualize transparent objects such as biological cells is of fundamental importance in biology and medical diagnostics. Conventional approaches to achieve this include phase-contrast microscopy and techniques ...

Earth Sciences Apr 28, 2021

Observations indicate strengthening of tropical Pacific western boundary currents for six decades

Against the background of global warming, the energy budget of the earth is out of balance with more than 90% of additional heat entering the ocean.

Veterinary medicine Nov 13, 2020

Early-life diet and can­ine atopy can have a con­nec­tion

Researchers from the international multidisciplinary research group "DogRisk" at the University of Helsinki have found novel early-life risk factors that impact the prevalence of atopic dermatitis in adult dogs. The results ...

Plants & Animals Nov 9, 2020

Environmental factors affect the distribution of Iberian spiders

Southern small-leaved oak forests are habitats with a higher level of spider endemism in the Iberian Peninsula, according to an article published in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation. The study analyzes the factors ...

Environment Sep 7, 2020

Researchers isolate responses of crop yield and production to climate disasters in China

Climate disasters have disrupted food production and caused yield losses in recent decades. These disasters have threatened food security at both local and global scales. Quantitative identification of the impacts of climate ...

Condensed Matter May 12, 2020

Researchers report memresistor material composition breakthrough

Scientists around the world are intensively working on memristive devices that draw extremely low power and behave similarly to neurons in the brain. Researchers from the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) and the German ...

Environment Apr 2, 2020

Scientists find a fluctuating rising trend of open agricultural straw burning in Northeast China

Open biomass burning (OBB) has a significant impact on regional air quality, especially on the heavy haze pollution in Northeast China (NEC) in recent years. Recent research published in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters ...

Economics & Business Mar 2, 2020

Biometric devices help pinpoint factory workers' emotions and productivity

Happiness, as measured by a wearable biometric device, was closely related to productivity among a group of factory workers in Laos, reveals a recent study.

Materials Science Jan 27, 2020

Combined data approach could accelerate development of new materials

Researchers in Japan have developed an approach that can better predict the properties of materials by combining high throughput experimental and calculation data together with machine learning. The approach could help hasten ...

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